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Social Care News: Social care stats - Hartlepool

16% of looked-after children with three or more placements in 2004/05 (13 per cent in England)

- 100% of child protection cases reviewed on time (99 per cent inEngland)

- 66.3% of children and young people communicated their views at theirlatest statutory review (81 per cent in England)

- 93.8% of core assessments completed within 35 working days of starting(67 per cent in England)

In December 2005 the Commission for Social Care Inspection saidHartlepool Borough Council was serving some children well and rated itscapacity for improving children's services as "promising". The councilachieved two stars overall. Inspectors said that there were fewerlooked-after children in Hartlepool than in similar councils.

Source: Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Department forEducation and Skills.

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